)ESTABLISHED 1890 jig S11t aiiM ASSOCIATED F PRESS VOL. X;KXVII, NO. 123. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1928 EIGH9T PAGES !U NMSTORY OF'EXPEDITION TO NORTHERN ISLAND IN ORAT01I ,AL SERIES HERE TONIGHT 'BALK TO BE ILLUSTRATE3D Noote Pub isher Directed Exploration lit Grcenland' For Amierican l spim In 1926 George Palmer Putnam, publisher, explbrer and lecturer, will be the eighth speaker on the current Orator- ical association lecture course, tak- ing place in H-ill auditorium tonight at :8 o'clock. Putnam' will take as the subject of his lecture he~e tonight the Baffi Island expedition of last summer, of which he was finacier and director. Putnam headed the American Mul- seum expedition to Greenland in 1926, andl was director o last summer's expedition tn Baffin Island, the main objective of which was the geograph- ical exploration of that region. Pro- fessor Lawrence M. Gould, oti the ge- ology, department, was assistant di- rector ot the expedition. Putnam is aAo head of the G P. Putnam corn- pany in New York, the second oldest publishing house in the United States. Esed Fishing Schmoonmer A two-;asted fishing schooner, the Morrissey, transported the party; into the Arctic last summer. The Ves- sel was equipped for the summer's work in" the Northland by Putnam and was personally directed by Capt.I Robert A. Bartlett, who was making his seventeenth expedition' in that capacity. Despite the, fact that the party ex- perienced a summer ol unusually rough weather, a great dTeal was ac- complished. According to Professor Gould, of the 60 days spent in the Arctic region, only six were what could rightly be term-e4d summer dlays,I while the natives referred to it as3 a "five-day" summer. 1 Maurice Kellerman, of the Pate Film compan , accompanied the par- ty in the capacity of special photo- grapher and succeeded in taking what have been acclaimed somve of the best films ever taken h the Ar- tic- region. The original 40,000 feet filmed on the' trip has since been re- duced to 6,000, with which V~ tnam illustrates the lecture tonight. 3'a s. B. Pond, head of the Pond bureau in New York, termed them the most in- teresting hie had ever seen of any such expeditions, Is Lecterer Of Note Although "Putnam is probably best known as, a publisher' al explorer, hlis ability as a lecturer has also attracted attention. At the cocu- sion of thme American Museum expe- dition in 192, Putnam delivered a lecture "Greenland - The Little Known" he-ore the American Geo-j graphical Society, which lecture was sai(l by Dr. Bowman, director of the society, to have been the best heard during the past two years and prob-I ably the best ever heard by that body on the Arctic. -The Putnam Baffin Island expedi- tion enjoyed the unique experience last' sunner of sailing for some 500, miles on a course the charts showed more° than 50 miles removed from salt water. In consequence of thei findings of the expeditio, l, afin Is- land, accreditedIby the Canadian government with nearly 211,000 square miles of area, has ben i - duced by more than 5,000 squarel miles. Whiile the other coasts of Baf- fin Island have been visited recently, knowledge of this portion 'o thel southwvest coast has remained vir- tually as it was establishedl by Foxe, and the charting of it ha":s;stood Tunl- challeng ed as originally laid down a hiundred years ago by Parry from the data of Foxe's rvyage. lin addition to Putnam and Prio- fes~or Gould the other general' per-1 sond 01'W the party included George Weymouth, of Phi1lelphia, Monroe G. Barnard, of New York, John A. Pope, of Detroit, Robert E. Peary, son of the famous explorer and, Wal-A lace II. Hwkiins, wvho were engineer1 and assistant, -espectively; Dr. Pete~r Ileinbecker, siurgeon.; Edward Mn leyi, radiio di, ctor; Kellerman, pho- tographer; Julius 1B. Bird, botan-1 ist; aidtwo junier members, Da- vid B3. Putnam, son of' the explorcr. and Deric Nusbaum. JUDICIARY GRKOUP T(O MEET TO NIGHT The jllH